http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/opinion/sunday/the-joy-of-quiet.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

article that echoes my thoughts. had it printed and stuck on my wall.

enjoyed many quotes from it:

'it is only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, understand what you should be doing with it and what usefulness you can bring to them' (vice versa).

'distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries . yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries'

'I have often said that the sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.'

We want to complexify our lives. We don’t have to, we want to. We wanted to be harried and hassled and busy. Unconsciously, we want the very things we complain about. For if we had leisure, we would look at ourselves and listen to our hearts and see the great gaping hold in our hearts and be terrified (justin taylor) . 

so, so true.

we work and toil and get caught up in 'busy' so that we have no time to sit down and stare at the blank canvas of life set out for us to be achieved.

anyhoo. 12 more days till i fly off